HBOOn his strategic footing in Tabor Heights Gyp Rosetti says it's "One road in, one road out..." A threat that he sabotaged the convoy once and he'll do it again if need be.

HBOWritten by Chris Haddock and directed by seasoned TV director Jeremy Podeswa, "Bone for Tuna" probes a bit deeper into the subconscious of Nucky Thompson who, a year and change after the murder of Jimmy Darmody, begins to show signs of stress.

'BOARDWALK EMPIRE' RECAP

SEASON THREE, EPISODE THREE

'BONE FOR TUNA'

THIS WEEK:Written by Chris Haddock and directed by seasoned TV director Jeremy Podeswa, "Bone for Tuna" probes a bit deeper into the subconscious of Nucky Thompson who, a year and change after the murder of Jimmy Darmody, begins to show signs of stress.

Some key moments:

• Haunted by a recurring nightmare and odd hallucinations, Nucky continues his obsession with the youthful Billie Kent.

• Nucky decides to rid the stone in his shoe by selling gangster Gyp Rosetti a one-month supply of alcohol. Still, Rosetti never seems happy.

• Nelson Van Alden attempts to get to know his co-workers a bit better but soon regrets the action.

We open in the suite at the Ritz-Carlton. A frustrated Nucky (Steve Buscemi) is on the phone and can't get through to his party - his mistress Billie Kent. He phones the operator to let her know there's trouble with the line.

"The only thing to worry about is when you run out of company, sir ..." HUH??? We get the sense something's not right here.

Then he sees a little boy standing in front of his desk. "Hungry, slugger?" he asks. (Last week, Nucky made it a note to tell Billie that he would often prepare 'hobo' food for his hungry family.)

By now, we realize this is a dream and, after a few more absurdist scenarios with the phone and a skillet of bacon, Nucky hears a loud gunshot and the little boy is now on the ground - shot through the face right under the left eye. It's exactly where he shot former protege Jimmy Darmody in the finale of season two.

HBOIt's a little more than obvious that Nucky is starting to wrestle with his conscience about killing Jimmy Darmody last season.

"Jesus Christ..." Nucky says, holding the smoking pistol. He runs up to the boy. "No... No ... No."

Just then, his loyal servant Eddie Kessler (Anthony Laciura) wakes Nucky from a nightmare and tells him that Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) is on the phone. Nucky sighs the husband sigh as he picks up the receiver.

"It's not my intention to pry..." Margaret says immediately, probably knowing that she woke her husband.

"There's a sentence that means it's opposite," Nucky quips. Even in slumber, he's quick on the uptake.

She informs that Father Shocke, the bishop's representative, needs an answer regarding Nucky's pending award: Knight Commander of the Royal Papal Order of Saint Gregory the Great. Plans need to be made, she tells him.

"Do it without me," he says.

"I would be happy to oblige," she darts back. "But you're the one they're knighting."

Nuck tells her that he doesn't even want to do it. She says that it's an honor. "You're not allowed to say 'no.'"

"There you have it... A shakedown from start to finish." They hang up. Nucky asks Eddie if Billie called. She didn't. Dismayed, he gets up and asks, "Is somebody frying something?"

Back at Thompson residence, Margaret tells Father Shocke that Nucky is detained with work and apologizes on his behalf.

The priest tells Margaret that if Nucky didn't work so hard he wouldn't have been able to donate that land (he's referring to Nucky's highway land that Margaret signed over on the sneak at the end of last season).

HBOMargaret says that it was all Nucky's idea to give the land away. "Truly, I can take no credit..."

She says that it was all Nucky's idea. "Truly, I can take no credit..." Margaret says deadpan.

He hands her a mock program for the ceremony and something catches her eye. She notices that the bishop isn't on the itinerary.

She reminds him of Nucky's selfless generosity to the diocese, and "to not have a moment with the bishop would be a disappointment." Margaret shrewdly asks if she should call the bishop's private secretary herself to "relieve you of the bother..."

"I'm sure something can be arranged," Shocke says.

In Chicago, George Mueller ... er, ... Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon) arrives to work at the Faraday Iron Company. He walks by his co-workers, who all seem to be suppressing chuckles. Something is up. He picks up his fountain pen and writes in his notebook to find the guys planted a gag pen that sprays him with ink all over his face. The office explodes with laughter.

Their boss Scotty Gulliver (John Harrington Bland) emerges from his office to chastise them. He says the world is "plagued by wrinkles ... on summer frocks and Sunday suits."

"Gloria Swanson is home alone on a Saturday night with nothing fresh to wear," he tells them. "We don't sell irons here ... We sell confidence and opportunity. Big contracts signed... The ring on a sweetheart's finger. Dreams that always come true."

He dangles the leads in front of them and asks who's ready to "spread the gospel?" They all rush to snag their index cards - all except Van Alden, who is still trying to hide the mess of his face and ink-stained clothes. The guys still laugh at their prank. It almost seems cruel.

"Obviously I offended you in some way..." Nucky says. "But since you're a man who can find an insult in a bouquet of roses, I'm not sure how."

"It's got something to do with you jeopardizing my livelihood..." Rosetti snaps back.

Nucky tells him that it's a free market and he sells to whom he chooses. Nucky goes on to explain that he doesn't sell to Frankie Yale or George Remus either and they're not acting like petulant children."

"No ... you only sell to the Jew," Rosetti says.

Nucky reiterates that he wants to keep things simple.

"Like this place," Rosetti says. "One road in, one road out..." A threat that he sabotaged the convoy once and he'll do it again if need be.

Nucky shoulder shrugs, telling Rosetti that he'll just use the back roads through the Pine Barrens. Rosetti admits he doesn't know what 'that' is but bets that "it's one hell of a slog."

Nucky gives Rosetti a piece of advice: Not to take everything so personal.

"Everyone's a person..." Gyp darts back. "So how else can they take it?"

Perhaps against his better business judgement, Nucky offers Rosetti not only some R&R in Atlantic City but a one-month supply of hooch.

"What happens after a month?" Rosetti asks.

"I don't consider that my problem..." Nucky answers.

"Square enough deal..." Rosetti agrees.

Satisfied, Nucky gets up, preps to leave and ... waits. "... And THIS is where you shake my hand," he tells Rosetti, who slowly obliges.

Back in Atlantic City at the Artemis Brothel, Gillian Darmody (Gretchen Mol) complains to Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza), her business partner, about the needed repairs the Commodore's mansion. Luciano doesn't want to hear it.

"I just dropped a grand to fix up your sitting room," he snaps. (That's $13,472.46 adjusted for inflation today, folks). She tells him that there are 18 more rooms that need attention.

"It's a whorehouse, not the Taj Mahal," he snaps. "Your name ain't even on the deed. It belongs to Jimmy."

"-- And he'll sign it over as soon as he comes home," she assures him.

He cuts her off and orders a return on his investment before hanging up. In the next room, he chats with Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef). The two address Benjamin Siegelbaum (Michael Zegen), now roughly 17 and known as 'Benny' not yet 'Bugsy'.

Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel

Previously footnoted: Biography.com tells us that Siegel is more than a mythical figure in Mafialand, and is primarily infamous as the visionary behind turning Las Vegas from a sand dune into a destination resort. Benny was eventually nicknamed "Bugsy" for his violent nature and bad temper. Read more HERE.

They discuss their new heroin business endeavor and prep 96 packages, for delivery under Benny's newsboy cap.

"Feels lumpy..." Benny says.

"That's how your head is gonna feel if you f#@k this up..." Luciano barks back.

Lansky intercedes. "He understands, Charlie..."

While they instruct Benny to take certain precautions of the delivery, the young hothead brandishes a pistol laughing. Luciano and Lansky get angry at him and reassert that he should walk if there's any sign of trouble.

When Benny leaves, Lansky admits to Luciano that that shouldn't be worrying about Benny - but Don Masseria.

Previously footnoted: The book "Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires" explains that Giuseppe Masseria aka "Joe the Boss" was a mob don from 1922-1931 of what's now considered to be the Genovese crime family. On April 15, 1931, Masseria was eventually gunned down at an Italian eatery by, guess who? Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis.

Margaret invites Landau to Nucky's award ceremony. The doctor responds by saying that he hopes there aren't any hard feelings (Two weeks ago, Margaret may have overstepped a bit when she suggested publicly that women should perhaps know more about prenatal care. The doctor didn't take kindly to it and called Margaret out to Nucky).

Back at Mickey Doyle's warehouse, he haggles with Elmer, one of his buyers over the money he agreed to pay for the hooch. Mickey says he's short. (In actuality, Mickey is upselling his own booze - way after the fact.)

"And how do you think he got that way?" Mickey asks, feigning responsibility for the murder. "By arguing with me." He goes on to tell Elmer that he better come up with the extra loot or that he'd meet the same fate as Manny and shows him the gun in his waistband.

Elmer tries to calm Mickey down, tells him to relax and forks up the rest of the cabbage. Mickey's young delivery boy looks on, almost petrified. Mickey yells at the boy and orders him over to Gillian's Artemis Club to deliver the booze.

At Babette's Supper Club, Nucky is enjoying the solace of the back room. Flashback time: He remembers introducing the young Jimmy Darmody and the rest of the A.C. ward bosses to Paddy Ryan (Samuel Taylor), the chief clerk of the fourth ward. Jimmy was to be his assistant. (In the episode, Jimmy was peeved that HE wasn't named chief clerk. That single act set the motion for the next two seasons).

Just then, Gyp Rosetti arrives. Nucky tells him that he was reminiscing about "the old days." They sit and chat.

Rosetti goes on to take note of the swanky joint and tells Nucky that back in Sperlinga, Sicily, he lived in a cave, a carved hut right into the mountain.

Rosetti goes on to toast Nucky good luck in Italian: Buona Fortuna.

Babette enters to take their order. After Rosetti flirts with her, Nucky says to send over two orders of whatever is good. Nuck asks Rosetti if he's "hot to trot." The gangster says he hasn't seen his wife in days. "Can you blame me?"

"Atlantic City offers many alternatives..." Nucky assures. Rosetti says that Gillian Darmody's place is top in his book. Nucky says that even though he's never been there, they go back a while. Rosetti invites Nucky to Gillian's brothel as his guest.

"Another time," Nucky says. "Maybe when I'm in your neck of the woods."

He suddenly remembers who he's talking to and quickly states, "Not that I'm implying you live among trees."

"... Like a monkey or somethin'?" Rosetti asks.

"Are we starting with this now?" Nucky answers. After a beat, Rosetti begins to snort like a monkey and Nucky realizes he's kidding around.

~~~

HBOIn the Big Apple, Meyer Lanksy reiterates to Benny that he wants the heroin deal to go down safe. Little does he realize that minutes later, a man approaches Benny in an ambush.

In the Big Apple, Lanksy reiterates to Benny that he wants the heroin deal to go down safe. Little does he realize that minutes later, a man approaches Benny in an ambush.

As Benny reaches for his piece, a thug grabs him from behind and says, "Joe Masseria says 'hello' ..."

A fight ensues and moments later, Lansky emerges with his gun, shooting one of the men smack dab in the head and pulling a hotheaded and sloppy Ben to safety.

In Chicago, Van Alden stares at the cracked and water-stained ceiling in his bedroom, unable to sleep. His Norwegian wife Sigrid (Christiane Seidel) consoles his fussy baby son. She tells him that she is soaking his ink-stained shirt in lemon juice for the morning and it should be ready to wear. She also advises to buy a new shirt. After all, Van Alden agrees, when the lady of the house opens their door to a salesman, they need to see "confidence and opportunity..."

"That is what you must carry in your case," Sigrid says.

Sensing he's tense, Sigrid suggests he should share his concerns, talk about his troubles. Van Alden tells her sales are slow. To help ease his mind, Sigrid attempts to help him out in the Biblical sense.

Dropping Gyp Rosetti off at Gillian's brothel, Nucky drives his Rolls Royce up the driveway to the Commodore's mansion.

Rosetti catches a glimpse of Gillian in the doorway. "Look at her..." he tells Nucky. "That red hair ... It gives me an ache. I'm serious." He quickly changes the subject and tells Nuck he's glad they settled their differences. Nucky agrees.

"No one is going to argue with that..." Nucky shoots back. Rosetti exits the car and greets Gillian, who exchanges a rather interesting look with Nucky.

Inside the brothel, Mickey Doyle's delivery boy brings a crate of hooch to the bar where Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) is tending. The boy asks Harrow if he enjoys the job and if he gets to take advantage of the lovely ladies.

"Not really," Harrow answers.

"Still, it beats the pants off my job..." the boy tells him.

The boy asks Harrow if he can keep a secret and goes on to tell Harrow that Doyle killed Manny Horvitz. "He may seem dopey, but I sure wouldn't mess with that guy..." (Two weeks ago, it was, in fact, masked man Harrow who blew Philly butcher Manny Horvitz's head clean off).

In a bedroom, we see Nucky trying once again to get Billie Kent on the phone. It just rings and rings and rings. Then: we hear a voice that says "hello" offscreen. It's Margaret. She seems surprised that Nucky is there so late. "So you'll be staying HERE tonight?"

"I thought we'd all head to the church tomorrow together," he answers (Nuck has agreed to receive that blasted award after all).

Nucky goes on to tell his wife that he's been having sleeping problems. Not wanting to hear it she advises, "Some warm milk perhaps..."

At the brothel, Gyp Rosetti watches one of the prostitutes recite some poetry amid harp music. It's an odd, odd scene... Here are the stanzas of the poem being read (*):

Young Love lies drowsing
Away to poppied death;
Cool shadows deepen
Across the sleeping face:
So fails the summer
With warm delicious breath;
And what hath autumn
To give us in its place?

Draw close the curtains
Of branched evergreen;
Change cannot touch them
With fading fingers sere:
Here first the violets
Perhaps with bud unseen,
And a dove, may be,
Return to nestle here.

Christina Rossetti

Editorial note: Clarified to correct that the poet was not brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti but his sister Christina.

(*) PoemHunter tells us that she's reading "Dream Love" by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894). HA! Do you think Gyp even picked up on the fact that the poem's author was his namesake? Very sly move on Gillian's part. In fact, user valvaljean points out in the comments below that she was a popular poet of the day who's work was the subject of Season 2, Episode 4 "What Does the Bee Do?" More on the poet HERE.

Everyone claps. Rosetti just wants to get it on. What's with all the poetry?

"I didn't understand a word of that..." he admits. "But very beautiful."

When Gillian asks what he wants next, Rosetti tells her that he wants to speak with her. He mentions that her overhead must be high and that her partner is probably worried about it.

"I heard his own brother tried to have him killed..." Rosetti takes it in. We see his wheels spin and how he can use that little tidbit to his advantage.

"You lose your own flesh and blood and what do you have?" he asks.

Gillian remembers Jimmy. "You don't have anything."

~~~

The next morning, Nucky and family walk into the church behind the bishop.

"You have no idea how uncomfortable this is..." Nucky tells her.

"You've made your discontent abundantly clear," Margaret snaps back.

"I meant the suit..." Nucky says. "It shrunk or something." Nucky tells her that he didn't sleep once again.

"Well, what do they say on Broadway? The show must go on," Margaret tells him.

HBOWhen seated at church, Nucky begins to hallucinate to see the altar boy with a bullet hole below his eye.

When seated, Nucky begins to hallucinate. He sees the altar boy with a bullet hole below his eye. It appears as though he's seen a ghost, clutching Margaret's hand.

When the bishop calls him up to anoint him a 'knight commander, of the order of St. Gregory,' Nucky glances over at the boy. The bullet hole is still there. He can't shake it.

Back at Farraday Irons, the guys in the office invite Van Alden to a speakeasy after work. He declines but they egg him on and he eventually agrees.

Later, at Nucky's knighthood gathering, he can't seem to get his mind together, seemingly preoccupied with seeing hallucinations of the boy shot through the face. Still, he attempts to put on a brave front for Margaret and their friends and guests.

Margaret asks him if he's okay. Nucky says he's fine but needs to use the bathroom. In a flash, he's on to his other obsession: Calling Billie Kent. He argues with the operator about the reliability of the phone line and how no one seems to be picking it up.

Back at the party, crafty Margaret introduces Bishop Norman to Dr. Landau. She goes on to tell the bishop a flat out lie: That St. Teresa's Hospital and Dr. Landau are trying to sponsor a women's' health clinic at the hospital and that the Thompsons are possible benefactors.

The bishop, intrigued, presses the doctor for more information. The dumbfounded physician stammers his way through an answer as Margaret smugly looks on before adding, "Seminars perhaps ... Nutrition, hygiene, prenatal care."

"There are some delicate topics which would have to be avoided..." Bishop Norman says.

The doctor assures him and is quickly cut off by Margaret. "Mr. Thompson and I felt the same way but still, a worthy endeavor."

"A touch of the modern, I suppose," the bishop adds. "You do understand my concerns?"

The bishop gives Margaret and Dr. Landau his blessing and is quickly off. An exasperated Landau looks at Margaret who says to him, "I'm afraid you finally trapped me. We'll sponsor the clinic as you wish ..."

HBOBack at Mickey Doyle's warehouse, it's obvious that the word around town is that he killed Manny Horvitz and is the resident badass.

Back at Mickey Doyle's warehouse, it's obvious that the word around town is that he killed Manny Horvitz and is the resident badass. Buyers come and go, giving Mickey the reverence he's always wanted.

Gyp Rosetti barrels in to pickup his month's supply of booze and is greeted by Nucky's right-hand man, Owen Sleater (Charlie Cox). Rosetti wants to know where Nucky is.

When Rosetti realizes that Eli is Nucky's brother, he remembers what Gillian told him. "The kid 'brudder,...' I heard alot about you..."

Eli tells Rosetti that he's all loaded up.

"That's it? The big sendoff?"

"I could christen you with a bottle of champagne." (**)

(**) About.com explains that 'christening fluid' goes all the way back to ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome when seamen would ask the gods to protect their sailors. By the 1800s, the christening of US vessels became major public events. For more on christening of ships and its history, click HERE.

"Tell Nucky I said 'goodbye..." Rosetti says. Before he leaves, Sleater tells Rosetti that Nuck had a message and reads it from a notebook:

'BONE FOR TUNA'

Rosetti isn't sure how to take it. He looks more than displeased and storms out.

Van Alden is stiff as a board at the speakeasy. His work buddies are having a grand old time when it gets raided by Prohibition agents. Former agent Van Alden goes white. He's been on the opposite side too many times before.

Editorial note: Want a tour of real speakeasies? Actors Greg Antonacci, Michael Stuhlbarg and Vincent Piazza who play Chicago mob boss Johnny Torrio and New York heavies Arnold Rothstein and Lucky Luciano lead us through the back halls of some famous gin joints of the day. Stupendous footage below. Grab some java and settle in:

A prohibition agent is convinced he knows Val Alden and soon realizes they live in the same neighborhood. He cuts him a break by allowing him to pay his fine "up front" (something Van Alden would never have done).

"Don't let me see you here again," the agent warns.

Later that night, Mickey Doyle brings a woman home to his apartment and, in the dark, we see Richard Harrow waiting for him, pistol in tow.

Mickey practically soils himself. Harrow escorts him out of the room and will be taking him somewhere at gunpoint.

Directed by F. W. Murnau, Turner Classic Movies, calls the silent film, "One of the most foreboding and influential horror films in the history of cinema.

On the drive back to New York, Rosetti's thug Tonino (Chris Caldovino) babbles on about a movie he just saw and it's main antagonist Orlok. He continues on about "the building of a coffin in a ship... And the whole crew? ... He drinks their blood. you gotta see this fella... Skinny ... Humpback ... fingernails like this..." (***)

(***) Rosetti's man must be talking about the 1922 silent horror classic "Nosferatu," right? Directed by F. W. Murnau, Turner Classic Movies, calls the silent film, "one of the most foreboding and influential horror films in the history of cinema..."

Slight faux pas, however. While the creeper was released in Germany in 1922, the IMDB tells us that it didn't get an American release until 1929. Watch the entire film HERE. Read more about the classic HERE.

Rosetti isn't listening to a word his Tonino is saying. He couldn't care less about some monster movie and is just fixated on Nucky's message.

"Who the f$#k is Nucky Thompson to wish me luck - and in Italian no less like he's mocking me," Rosetti seethes. 'Buona fortuna like he's wishing me to get back on my feet... Push me over a cliff why don't ya. I need his blessing to make my way in the world? I need HIM to lecture me? 'Nothing's personal'? What the f$#k is life is it's not personal!!"

~~~

Back in his suite at the Ritz, Nucky, once again is trying to get Billie on the phone. No answer. He instructs Eddie to bring around the car. When the butler leaves to fetch the automobile, in comes Richard Harrow, who's shoving a sniveling Mickey into Nuck's chambers. Obviously, Nucky is taken by surprise and doesn't know what any of this is about.

Mickey apologizes to the two of them for cultivating the Manny Horvitz rumor. "A man's death is no laughing matter..." Harrow says.

"I didn't do it!! I didn't kill Manny Horvitz!!"

"Who ever said you did?!" Nucky yells.

"He said it," Harrow tells Nucky.

"I was only blowing smoke. Shooting my mouth off!" Mickey pleads.

Nucky puts two and two together and quickly realizes it was Harrow who killed Horvitz. "Jesus ... " Nucky says.

Nucky walks from around his desk to speak more intimately with Harrow and asks, "Not her husband?" That's Nucky fishing.

"Jimmy was a soldier. He fought. He lost..." Harrow says.

"So I can assume that my family and I are safe?" Nuck asks.

Harrow nods. "You and Mrs. Thompson were good to me. You have nothing to fear."

"How many people have you killed?" Nucky asks him.

"63..."

"Do you think about any of them?"

"You know the answer to that yourself," Harrow tells Nuck.

At the hospital, Margaret tells Dr. Mason about the victory over Dr. Strauss and how the new women's annex will now be a reality. They walk down an old wing to a room, stacked high with chairs and old furniture. She opens the door to introduce the future home of St. Teresa's Women's Clinic.

We're back at the Tabor Heights filling station from last week. Now, Rosetti is loading his own convoy of trucks with gas.

HBOWe're back at the Tabor Heights filling station from last week. Now, Rosetti is loading his own convoy of trucks with gas.

Bidding farewell, Sheriff Victor Sickles (E.J. Carroll) rides up and assumes that this will be the last he'll be seeing Rosetti. He also advises the gangster that he shouldn't be smoking around the gas pumps.

"Good luck to ya, now ..." Sickles says before walking away.

Man, was THAT ever the wrong thing to say to Rosetti, who suddenly sparks alive. He drops his cigarette and grabs the gas pump, approaching Sickles.

"Hey, Sheriff, I think we're gonna stick around a while," Rosetti barks as he douses the lawman with gas. Rosetti lights a match and poof... Sickles is charcoal. Rosetti watches him burn alive.

In New York, Nuck knocks on Billie Kent's door. When no one answers he lets himself in with the key left under the pot. No one is home and while he waits for her, he falls asleep on her couch. He seems at peace. he can finally sleep.

The next morning, he is awakened by the sound of sizzling bacon. It's Billie who is preparing breakfast. "Well, look who's up..." she says.

He explains that he thought he was having a nightmare that he was alone.

"Well you're not alone anymore, are you?"

Nucky puts his head on her shoulder as she finishes prepping breakfast. He's finally resting. This is all it took.

We fade out.

Other stuff on my mind:

• The title of the episode "Bone for Tuna" is an obvious play on the salutation of good luck in Italian buona fortuna. It was also Nucky's hilarious way to stick it to Gyp Rosetti.

• Is there anyone else out there who hates dream sequences?

• Just throwing it out there: How long before Margaret gets involved with Dr. Mason? After all, he 'changed' tobaccos for her.

GLORIA SWANSON

• This probably should have been in a footnote up top but Van Alden's manager mentioned actress Gloria Swanson in his motivational speech. While she was a gigantic star of the day, she found even more fame playing fallen flicker star Norma Desmond in the film noir classic "Sunset Boulevard" in 1950.

• The operator in Nuck's dream sequence told him: "The only thing to worry about is when you run out of company, sir." Those words were practically the last thing Jimmy Darmody said to Nucky before he was murdered in the last episode of season 2 "To the Lost." The actual line was (as Nucky points his gun): "Breathe, Nuck ... You'll get through it. ... All you gotta worry about is when you run out of booze, run out of company and the only person left to judge you is you.” BOOM!

• While we can now probably all agree that Tabor Heights is a fictitious town, it was fun to surmise where it could have been located. Last week in the comments, user 'kinglerxst2112' pointed us in the direction of this great vintage PDF map of New Jersey, circa 1925. Check it out HERE.

• "Truly, I can take no credit..." Margaret tells Father Shocke regarding Nucky's land being given to the church. Is she icy or what?

PINTERESTCould this be the inspiration for Richard Harrow?

• The up-and-coming social network Pinterest is a godsend for anyone looking for vintage pictures. Imagine my surprise when I came across a photograph of a soldier from World War I who wears a prosthetic mask ala Richard Harrow. Could this have been the inspiration?

• Who else was waiting for Van Alden to blow a gasket in his sales office?

• How kitschy was that dining car that Nucky met Gyp in? Fore more on these pieces of Americana click HERE and HERE.

• Nucky nailed it when he said Gyp Rosetti could find an insult in a bouquet of roses. Could be the line of the episode.

IF I WAS A GANGSTER

• We must admit that Mickey Doyle may be the most inept gangster ever created. Check out the video at left where actor Paul Sparks addresses whether he would be suited for a life of crime.

• Nitpick question: Why would Nucky even mention to Rosetti that he was not selling booze to George Remus when Remus was considered to be a master bootlegger who owned distilleries that made bonded medicinal liquor that was sold legally pharmacies?

• Look at the conniving Gillian... Pretending that Jimmy is 'on the lam.' And who's dumb enough to believe it? Or do you think she is just delusional enough to think that Jimmy is on the lam?

• Not sure if we ever caught a glimpse of the outside of the Commodore's mansion before. Pretty palatial. And speaking of, it was an interesting look Nucky and Gillian exchanged when Nuck dropped of Rosetti.

• Are the writers on "Empire" a tad impressed with themselves - digging up a poet named 'Rossetti' for the brothel scene. Hilarious and ingenious.

SONG OVER CLOSING CREDITS

• The blues tune over the end credits was "Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" made popular by Bessie Smith (and performed by countless others). It was written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. Enjoy it below.

• "It's like a bad clam in my mouth..." Rosetti says to Gillian. Really, Gyp, that's the best you could come up with?

• Hmmm, Margaret used a Broadway expression when answering Nucky's statement about him not sleeping. Was that her way of telling her husband that she's very aware of his trysts with showgirl Billie Kent and perhaps that's why he's not sleeping?

• Mickey Doyle would be the kinda guy to wear sock garters, huh?

• I bet ol' 'George Mueller' was thanking the Lord for dirty treasury agents because, back in the day, Van Alden would've hauled his own self in.

• It certainly seems as though Nucky has this newfound fear of being alone. One that we've never really seen until now, correct?